TLASILA Blog: A forum for all things related (and of interest) to the experimental collective To Live and Shave in L.A. Founded by Tom Smith in May 1990, TLASILA is antithesis, energized at the juncture of aesthetic revulsion. Genre is obsolete.

Sunday, February 25, 2007

TLASILA on YouTube > Newly Posted Video

A few days ago, YouTube regular Timestereo posted a sweet pro B&W edit of To Live and Shave in L.A.'s September 14, 2004 performance at the Detroit Art Space.

We had no idea... Don Fleming was the first of the group to discover Timestereo's work.

The bonus? It looks pretty fucking cool!

(The above isn't a hyperlink, just a YouTube imagegrab. So don't go clickin' your brains out.)

The ensemble comprised Mark Morgan, Ben Wolcott, Rat Bastard, Andrew W.K., the aforementioned Mr. Fleming, and your semi-faithful blogger Tom Smith, with majordomo Chris Grier, who can be seen in wide shots interrogating showgirls with a safety razor. The makeshift bar by the tangle of old ten-speeds is always the place to be...

6 comments:

Replicate, as in 1) give a similar performance, or 2) allow another video to be made?

1) We're never the same - we always seem to change from tour to tour, often dramatically so. This outing will be no different. We hope you'll dig whatever the Hell it is we eventually do.

In Denver, we're planning a 300-minute dulcimer solo.

2) I don't mind if people film/record/transmit our live sets, as long as they talk to us before they release anything (DVD, CD, tape, etc.), and give us - at the very least - 10 copies of same (preferably more, at least three per group member).

this is a flatout beautiful segment of sound, i wish i had been there. thankyou. Tom, I understand your reasoning for cancelling your tour a few months back, but we'd love to have TLASILA here in north adams, MA, anytime you can.

I felt so rotten after canceling the winter tour... We'd thrown our lot in with a newly hired booking agent, and had high hopes for a successful collaboration. Instead, we saw everything become hopelessly fouled. No one's fault, really, just goddamned fate. But, simultaneously, such a drain...

I'm still feeling raw from the experience.

This time, we're going all out. Fuck it.

Hope you'll have us back in Northampton. Mark Morgan told me that the Sightings/Demons/Moore/etc trip went very well. Wish I could have seen some of those gigs!

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Began making music at nine - shortwave radio and turntable manipulation. (Just wicked child's play, but ideas quickly coalesced.) Joined an African-American funk ensemble at 13. Within minutes of his debut, received an ear-nuzzle and a beer. Hooked. Enrolled in an electronic music class at university in 1974; joined the staff of its radio station the same year. Initial electro-acoustic compositions recorded (often in collaboration with Don Fleming) in 1975. During off-hours at the station, emboldened both by the aesthetic promise of punk and Lee Perry's titanic Super Ape, subverted production facilities to create fractured dub versions of extant, "underdone" releases. Moved to NYC in 1977; kept eyes peeled. Migrated next to Athens, Georgia; formed Boat Of (1979-83). Moved to DC, resurfaced as Peach of Immortality (1983-91). Amidst turmoil, signed on with Pussy Galore (8/85 to 2/86). Initial TLASILA demos were recorded by TS in May 1990. Smith moved to Miami in 1991 and perfected the TLASILA template. Rat Bastard and Ben Wolcott were aboard by 93-94. Moved to Germany in 2008. MORE!!